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I was contacted by a Diana moyer who claim to be a facebook

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I was contacted by a Diana moyer who claim to be a facebook on line claim agent and was told I won 100,000of course I was excited. I did not believe her at first she said I had to pay 420.00 to have it delivered within 24 hours so of couse I sent the money Monday then I was told I had to go back to send it to someone else the truck with the check which I didn,t understand why it had to be that way of course it never arrived I just recovered from cancer and was very excited about getting this money I think this was a scam dI tried to contact Diana to find out when the truck was coming I gave her time to reply with no advil please et me know if this was a true scam thank you

The fact is that you cannot ever win a contest that you didn't enter, and you didn't enter this one because it doesn't exist. This is just an attempt by a stranger to fleece you out of money. Further you never have to pay out of pocket to get money you have really won. When you're a real winner, that money is already yours, and all the real contest would do would be to deduct any transfer expenses from the money they already have and then give you the balance free and clear with no other strings attached.

There's a lot of fraud on Facebook, including people who will friend you and talk about how they themselves won a lot of money in a contest and who are setting you up for a scam. You can sue these folks or have them prosecuted, but in order to do that, you'd have to know who and where they really are, and that is a tall order. Facebook is not going to reveal private information except after a court order, and in any case, one can easily set up a Facebook profile using completely false information.

So this is really going to be a job for law enforcement, because the only way you'll get your money back is if the authorities can find the folks who cheated you and bring them to justice. You need to report the fraud to your police and to the FBI. For internet fraud, the FBI wants you to use their Internet Crime Complaint Center, online at IC3.gov.